Karen+-+Puzzlingo+Week+4

PUZZINGO This application is under "Game" category in Apple Store, but I find it related to education to some extent. So I evaluate it this week. When the home page/interface was opened, I was surprised to see a tag with Chinese chracter meaning play on it. When the tag was clicked, it took the player in to play. I did not think much about the Chinese character here because I thought may be the app wanted player to click around and find the place to click on.

It is basically a bunch of pictures with words showing on the right side, and the player has to drag each of them to the dark shaddow on the left. The picture and the shaddow have the same shape so it is not hard to determine which one fits which. While dragging, there is a pronounciation of each word that players could hear. I think it is a good strategy because children learn how to pronounce that word. I found the Chinese word meaning Exit here again, which confuses me a lot. This is not a Chinese learning application. The possible explanation is this game is designed by Chinese and for Chinese kids to learn simple English words. Another Chinese words meaning "Congratulations" appears when the game is completed.

I think this application is colorful and designed very carefully. This could attract young children to play with it. Also, the pronouciation is very good for kids to hear the English words. The all categorizes have the same playing model: drag and drop. So maybe after playing with toy and animal, children will lose interest in playing with other categories. It would be better if the game adds other kind of playing. Besides, it would be better if players receive some sort of feedback while playing.